We have just sent out the latest issue of our e-newsletter with details of maths teaching resources we have developed with the Oxfam Education team, new data archive in the USA, and a pre-announcement of the release of preliminary findings from our Round 4 survey.

This review article explores current understandings of child development and the consequences of poverty for children in low- and middle-income countries by integrating empirical evidence from development economics with insights from allied social science disciplines.

Professor Jo Boyden was invited by the CESS-UNICEF Division for Child Studies and the Director of the Centre for Economic and Social Studies in Hyderabad to give a Distinguished Guest Lecture on 24 September 2014.

Caine Rolleston presented Young Lives findings at a workshop hosted by the Liaison Agency Flanders-Europe (vleva) and the Flemish Association for Development Cooperation and Technical Assistance (VVOB) to discuss the factors that influence children's learning outcomes.

Preliminary findings from Rounds 1 to 4 of the Young Lives survey were launched at a special event in Delhi on 18 September 2014. To publish early findings, we produced a series of short fact sheets - focusing on Education and Learning; Nutrition and Health; and Youth and Development. These fact sheets give a brief overview of children's outcomes at age 12 and age 19 looking at differences by poverty level, rural/urban location and gender.

In a blog post for the Global Partnership for Education, Santiago Cueto argues that having uneducated parents, receiving poor early childhood developmental inputs, being from a marginalized ethnic group or just being a girl – all of these factors may influence a child’s future educational outcomes before they even start school.

We have just sent out the latest issue of our e-newsletter with details of our new book, new data archive in the USA, and a pre-announcement of the release of preliminary findings from our Round 4 survey Sign up to receive future issues.

Over the next few weeks we will be releasing preliminary findings from the Rounds 4 household and child survey carried out in all four study countries in late 2013. Watch our website, or sign up for our e-newsletter, to keep up to date.

This new book brings together the latest findings from Young Lives on how poverty affects children's development and how children and their families respond to poverty in their daily decisions and daily lives.

We are pleased to announce new funding from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation for a research and policy programme on the dynamics of gender inequality among young people as they enter adulthood. The aim is to deepen understanding of the factors that bring about positive change in young people’s lives by promoting gender justice as a key means of addressing child poverty.

The Young Lives team will be presenting at the annual conference of the Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies in Lausanne (9-11 October), which this year focuses on the links between research and policy.